On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE WARNING NOT FOR MERGE
>
> This posting is just to demonstrate something that I have been keeping
> alive in the background. I have no urge to push it upstream anytime
> soon.
>
> The overwhelming majority of drivers do not ever bother with the 'irq'
> argument that is passed to each driver's irq handler.
>
> Of the minority of drivers that do use the arg, the majority of those
> have the irq number stored in their private-info structure somewhere.
>
> There are a tiny few -- a couple Mac drivers -- which do weird things
> with that argument, but that's it.
Jeff,
thanks for doing this.
Full ACK.
We should do this right at the edge of -rc1. And let's do this right
now in .24 and not drag it out for no good reason.
Thanks,
tglx